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What is the verb for quantity?

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quantize
  1. (physics) To limit the number of possible values of a quantity, or states of a system, by applying the rules of quantum mechanics
  2. (transitive, telecommunications) To approximate a continuously varying signal by one whose amplitude can only have a set of discrete values
  3. (music) To shift each beat in a rhythmic pattern to the nearest beat of a given resolution (eighth note, sixteenth note, etc.), or to adjust the frequency or pitch of a note to the nearest perfect tone in a given musical scale
  4. Examples:
    1. “Only now are we trying to quantize the theory to make it compatible with the other forces.”
      “Lattice-gauge theorists use the Feynman path-integral technique to quantize the field theory.”
      “In the first, investigation starts with a classical chaotic system and seeks to quantize it to study its quantum behavior.”
quantify
  1. To assign a quantity to.
  2. To determine the value of (a variable or expression).
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  4. Examples:
    1. “The urge to quantify things gets the better of us, and we attach numbers to things that either aren't measured well or can't be measured at all.”
      “These measures enabled researchers to quantify each individual act of violence in each film.”
      “And while it is easy to quantify the cost so far, it is much harder to work out how big an impact it will have in future.”
quantitate
  1. (transitive) To measure the quantity of, especially with high accuracy and taking uncertainty into account, as in quantitative analysis.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The polymerase chain reaction assay, branched DNA assay and nucleic acid sequence-based amplification assay quantitate human immunodeficiency virus RNA levels.”
      “To quantitate the magnitude of neutrophilic lung inflammation, we investigated the cellular profile of BAL fluid of the lungs 24 hours after the intratracheal instillations.”
      “More recently, gas liquid chromatography with selected ion monitoring has been used to quantitate busulfan in biological fluids.”
quantized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of quantize
quantified
quantise
  1. (British spelling) Alternative spelling of quantize
quantificate
  1. (rare) To quantify
quantitates
quantises
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quantise
quantizes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quantize
quantifies
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quantify
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  3. Examples:
    1. “In addition, this study also quantifies the power law in the interval between these extremes.”
      “Unfortunately, they come up short in providing a tangible value proposition that quantifies what the product actually means to a business.”
      “A statement that quantifies a variable need not necessarily give the set from which the variable is to be taken.”
quantitated
  1. simple past tense and past participle of quantitate
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Staining was quantitated and correlated with histologic subtype and mitotic index.”
      “To assess telomeric localization, we quantitated the number of telomeric foci in the various strain backgrounds.”
      “For all treatments, plasma membrane cholesterol levels were quantitated by filipin staining as previously described.”
quantised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of quantise
  2. Examples:
    1. “It's this very fluidity which makes such a refreshing change from the quantised beats of much of today's dance music.”
quantitating
  1. present participle of quantitate
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Analytical chemistry is that area of chemistry that develops methods to identify substances by analyzing and quantitating the exact composition of a mixture.”
      “Copolymeric solid-phase extraction for quantitating drugs of abuse in urine by wide-bore capillary gas chromatography.”
      “This invention suggests a potential new method for classifying and quantitating the extent of injury.”
quantising
  1. present participle of quantise
quantizing
  1. present participle of quantize
  2. Examples:
    1. “Truncating the embedded bitstream associated with any given code-block has the effect of quantizing the samples in that block more coarsely.”
      “To ensure noise measurements on digital carriers are valid, a holding tone must be transmitted to operate the compander and quantizing circuitry in its normal operating range.”
quantifying
  1. present participle of quantify
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Currently, empirical studies of population demography are more frequently quantifying variances of parameters as well as mean values.”
      “We fit elliptical isophotes to a diverse sample of Chandra cluster data and summarize other methods for quantifying relaxedness.”
      “At present we are still quantifying our position but under the terms of our fraud insurance policy are hereby advising you of a potential claim.”
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